Older woman injured in kitchen fall with hip pain, Ypsilanti MI
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Medical EmergencyAs discussed during the dispatch call, a 92-year-old woman fell in her kitchen and injured her right hip. She experienced severe pain and had a visible leg deformity. She has a history of heart arrhythmia and diabetes. She was given pain medication during transport to the hospital and was confused but stable.
Audio|Heard on: Washtenaw MI Hospital Group Calls
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02:12
Transcript:
00:00
St. Joe's ER, we're currently in about your facility.
00:02
You're coming in from a private resident.
00:04
I have a 92-year-old female patient who had a mechanical fall in her kitchen.
00:08
It was witnessed by two family members.
00:10
She was walking across the floor and kind of tripped up in her walker, went down.
00:15
She has obvious deformity to her right leg.
00:18
Her chief complaint is a severe right hip pain.
00:25
It's kind of a straight line.
00:27
I don't see it medial or laterally rotated, but it is shorter by about two inches than her left leg.
00:32
We had necessarily tried to get some spleen down.
00:36
She was 10 out of 10 pain, so she's 80 kilos.
00:39
We give her 40 kilograms of fentanyl prior to splitting her up.
00:49
And we are not to your facility.
00:52
She does have advanced forgetfulness.
00:55
Family says she's not really been diagnosed with dementia, but they believe that she has it.
01:00
Ask what her mental status was normally, and she's alert to herself and the current family members, but very confused, normal.
01:09
Family said at that time she was kind of that in normal baseline.
01:14
I'm giving her about a 14 for GCS.
01:18
Blood pressure is 141 over 69.
01:20
Her heart rate is 85, irregular.
01:22
It does have a history of aphib, but she looks like she's mostly sinus with occasional PACs.
01:29
Her respiratory rate is 16, she's 97% on her mirror.
01:33
She is a diabetic, her blood sugar was 149.
01:37
She is on aliquist for her aphib.
01:41
During transport and the bumpy ride, she was complaining of pain again, so she did get a repeat though, so she got another 40, so she's had a total of 80 micrograms of the final.
01:57
So she's resting comfortably currently.
02:00
We're stuck in traffic at ETA's probably about 15 minutes.
02:05
Can I just get your rig number?
02:09
2612. All right, there's netjo's there.
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Location mentioned:
McAuley Dr, Ypsilanti, MI 48197
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